| 释义 |
odds
I. \ˈädz\ noun plural but sometimes singular in construction
Etymology: odd (I) + -s
1.
a. archaic : inequalities, disparities
< death looks down with nods and smiles and makes the odds all even — W.M.Praed >
b. obsolete : degree of unlikeness
< a manifest odds between the bigness of the diameter — John Locke >
2.
a. : amount of difference by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another : amount in excess or defect
< won the election by considerable odds >
b.
(1) : difference favoring one of two opposed things : balance of advantage or weight of opposition
< the overwhelming odds it affords the sportsman over bird and animal — Richard Jefferies >
< one man's determination to win through despite heavy odds — Robert Nicholas >
< has managed to beat the odds against him — Frank O'Leary >
< would assume that the odds were against him — Gilbert Highet >
(2) archaic : the state or fact of being in an advantageous position
(3) : difference in the way of advantage or disadvantage or of benefit or detriment : significant difference : importance : advantage to be gained : profit, benefit, use, percentage
< it makes no odds what you do >
< she'll do it anyway, so what's the odds of telling her not to >
< it was little odds what they sang, for they were all singing out of tune — Michael McLaverty >
< what's the odds, if thinking so makes them happy — Flora Thompson >
c.
(1) : the probability that one thing is so rather than another or that one thing will happen rather than another : balance of probability : greater likelihood : chances
< the night is clear and the odds are that it'll stay that way until morning — H.D.Cooper >
< the odds are against it >
(2) : the ratio of probability that one thing is so rather than another or that one thing will happen rather than another
< it is even odds which makes the more noise — Claudia Cassidy >
3. : disagreement, dissension, variance — now usually used with at
< was at odds with everything she represented — Cliff Farrell >
< were at moral odds among themselves — Time >
4.
a.
(1) : an advantage (as a head start in a footrace) given to a less skilled or otherwise weaker competitor
< allowed odds to the other team >
(2) : special favor : special treatment or consideration : partiality
< I ask no odds of them, no more than I do of the dirt I walk on — H.C.Kimball >
b.
(1) : the advantage of an unequal wager that is granted by one making a bet to one accepting the bet and that is made proportionate to and is designed to equalize the assumed chances favoring the one or the other of the bettors
< offered him odds of 3 to 1 but he refused to take the bet >
(2) : the ratio assumed to exist or actually arrived at (as by preliminary placement of bets) with regard to the probabilities of winning or losing and used as a basis for placing bets; specifically : the ratio existing between the amount to be paid off for a winning bet and the amount of the bet placed
< the horse was running at odds of 6 to 1 >
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- by all odds
II. transitive verb
(past or past part oddsed present third singular odds)
dialect England : to make some adjustment in (as by altering) |